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Siri Hustvedt

"I was happy without having sought happiness."

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"I was happy without having sought happiness."

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"To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve."

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"Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people."

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"Take your million smiles through billion miles, life will never get boring for you even for a while."

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"Happiness is there when your dreams, hopes, and desires are compatible with your actions."

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"Happiness is a state of mind, not the condition we find."

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"You cannot fill your life with happiness when you insist on living a stressful life."

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"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."

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"A joyful life, life of contentment."

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"Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job."

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"Follow your heart, there lies your happiness."

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"Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-flesh and bone-only to be spewed out again in our own works."
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"I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls."
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"Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book."
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"There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see in a new way."
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"Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question."
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"Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption."
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"We all start out the same in our mothers' wombs. We, all of us, when floating in the amniotic sea of our earliest oblivion, have gonads. If the Y chromosome didn't swoop in to act on the gonads of some of us and make testes, we would all become women. In biology, the Genesis story is reversed: Adam becomes Adam out of Eve, not the other way around."
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"The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what was possible there."
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"Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others."
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"Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on."
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